Which responded with more than 200 dresses [dresses]
"I just want for girls to go to prom and experience high school as it should be without any financial burden."
prom-dress-new-jersey.JPGJinhee Lecollects donated prom dresses and sells them for $10 each. The profits are donated to charity.Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger So for the past two years,Tulle v-neck applique floor length ball gown wedding/party dress the Rutgers University sophomore has helped to outfit prom-goers in need. Lee, 20, collects once-worn dresses from girls in the South Jersey area, stores them in her parents' living room and sells them for $10 each at a prom event each March.To build donor incentive, she gives the funds raised to the school or organization that donates the most dresses. This year, for the first time, Lee expanded her drive to the Rutgers munity in New Brunswick, which responded with more than 200 dresses.
Lee collected nearly 600 dresses triple the amount she did in her first year of the project.Tomorrow, she will bring her dresses to New Brunswick High School at 1000 Somerset St., where she will hold a second and final sale of the season from 1 to 3 p.m.The first sale, held last Saturday at Cinnaminson High School, brought in $1,148 through the sale of hundreds of dresses and donations.Lee, who studies political science and planning and public policy at Rutgers, does all the work. Last weekend, during a visit to Cinnaminson, she made stops at 17 donors' homes to pick up donated dresses. "As the time gets closer, a lot more time is spent, but it's manageable, and I definitely think it's worth it, so I don't really mind too much," she says.
prom-dress-nj.JPGNatasha Civil with some of the hundreds of prom dresses she has collected of Cinderella for a Day at her home in Bloomfield.Ed Murray/The Star-LedgerNatasha Civil, a Bloomfield mother of two, operates a similar service, one she calls Cinderella for a Day."As women, we have a lot of dresses we only wear one time. Why not donate it and give it to someone that can use it?" she says. Civil receives donations from area shops, as well as through partnerships with Bloomfield College, Caldwell College,Taffeta strapless Embroidery beaded Quinceanera Dresses Passaic County Community College and Bergen Community College.Discount Beach wedding dresses for saleCivil, 37, started her "Cinderella for a Day" nonprofit organization four years ago. Today, she's preparing an all-day Cinderella prom experience to be held April 19 in Totowa.
prom-dress-new-jersey.JPGJinhee Lecollects donated prom dresses and sells them for $10 each. The profits are donated to charity.Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger So for the past two years,Tulle v-neck applique floor length ball gown wedding/party dress the Rutgers University sophomore has helped to outfit prom-goers in need. Lee, 20, collects once-worn dresses from girls in the South Jersey area, stores them in her parents' living room and sells them for $10 each at a prom event each March.To build donor incentive, she gives the funds raised to the school or organization that donates the most dresses. This year, for the first time, Lee expanded her drive to the Rutgers munity in New Brunswick, which responded with more than 200 dresses.
Lee collected nearly 600 dresses triple the amount she did in her first year of the project.Tomorrow, she will bring her dresses to New Brunswick High School at 1000 Somerset St., where she will hold a second and final sale of the season from 1 to 3 p.m.The first sale, held last Saturday at Cinnaminson High School, brought in $1,148 through the sale of hundreds of dresses and donations.Lee, who studies political science and planning and public policy at Rutgers, does all the work. Last weekend, during a visit to Cinnaminson, she made stops at 17 donors' homes to pick up donated dresses. "As the time gets closer, a lot more time is spent, but it's manageable, and I definitely think it's worth it, so I don't really mind too much," she says.
prom-dress-nj.JPGNatasha Civil with some of the hundreds of prom dresses she has collected of Cinderella for a Day at her home in Bloomfield.Ed Murray/The Star-LedgerNatasha Civil, a Bloomfield mother of two, operates a similar service, one she calls Cinderella for a Day."As women, we have a lot of dresses we only wear one time. Why not donate it and give it to someone that can use it?" she says. Civil receives donations from area shops, as well as through partnerships with Bloomfield College, Caldwell College,Taffeta strapless Embroidery beaded Quinceanera Dresses Passaic County Community College and Bergen Community College.Discount Beach wedding dresses for saleCivil, 37, started her "Cinderella for a Day" nonprofit organization four years ago. Today, she's preparing an all-day Cinderella prom experience to be held April 19 in Totowa.
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